Only a naive person believes in Turchynov's sincerity, only a fool believes in decency... Turchynov skillfully converts his invaluable experience of political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed that when Yu. Tymoshenko is "sitting", the rates of A. Turchinov increase sharply.
Ex-First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, ex-head of the Security Service of Ukraine, "gray eminence" of the BYuT, one of the most quoted Ukrainian politicians... There is no doubt: A. Turchynov is one of the most experienced politicians in Ukraine, capable of multi-level and multi-way combinations, of any alliances with any people.
Turchinov skillfully converts the truly invaluable experience of the political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed that when Yu. Tymoshenko is "sitting", the rates of A. Turchinov increase sharply. But it is impossible to imagine Turchynov as an independent politician. At the same time, political maneuvering and survival in the Ukrainian political freak show has long become an end in itself.
REFERENCE. Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov was born on March 31, 1964 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. After graduating from school, A. Turchinov worked as a roller operator at the Kryvorizhstal plant. He entered the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (graduating with honors in 1986). 1987-1990 - Secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.
According to media reports, in 1989 A. Turichnov supported the start-up entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko in the creation of the youth center "Terminal" under the auspices of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU, in which she took the position of commercial director.
1990 - Chief Editor"UNA-press APN", the Ukrainian branch of the Russian news agency "IMA-Press" (publishing books and periodicals).
1991 - Director of the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law.
1992-1993 - Chairman of the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
1993 - Advisor on economic issues to the Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma (they have known each other since the time of the management of the last Yuzhmash plant, Dnepropetrovsk) on macroeconomic issues. Vice President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP).
After the resignation (September 1993) of L. Kuchma from the post of head of government, he took the post of director general of the Institute of Economic Reforms, head of the shadow economy research laboratory of the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada", which later became the party of Pavel Lazarenko, the odious prime minister during the presidency of L. Kuchma (P. Lazarenko joined it and headed it in 1997). Yulia Tymoshenko also joined Gromada, at that time one of the leaders of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation (UESU), which supplied Russian natural gas.
1998 - people's deputy (also became a deputy in 2002 and 2006). Passed to the parliament on the list of "Hromada"; in the Verkhovna Rada headed the Budget Committee. He initiated the budget reform, the redistribution of public funds in favor of local government, the health care system, the educational and coal mining industries. The author of the program de-shadowing the economy of Ukraine.
1999, July: after a breakdown in relations with P. Lazarenko, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" (the new political project of A. Turchynov and Y. Tymoshenko was headed by the latter). Important: Yulia Tymoshenko soon became Vice-Premier for the Fuel and Energy Complex in Viktor Yushchenko's government; "Batkivshchyna" was actually headed by A. Turchinov.
opposition activity. In January 2001 Yulia Tymoshenko was dismissed and then arrested. A tough confrontation with L. Kuchma begins (both in parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities: the actions “Ukraine without Kuchma” and “Arise, Ukraine!”, the creation of the National Salvation Forum - up to the “orange revolution” 2005-2005).
2005 - headed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He made an attempt to reform the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation. It was planned to transfer counterintelligence and all issues affecting national security to the jurisdiction of the National Bureau of Investigation.
On July 27, A. Turchinov announced that he had indirect evidence that the RosUkrenergo company, Gazprom's intermediary in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia and Ukraine, is controlled by an international criminal authority, one of the leaders of an organized criminal community in the post-Soviet space, an FSB agent who emigrated to Israel in 1990 and then moved to Hungary and has citizenship of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hungary. S. Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI for alleged participation in fraud with shares, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transportation of weapons and drugs. Lives without problems in Moscow.
September 2005 - submitted a resignation letter in protest against the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko's comrade-in-arms from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. May - October 2007 - First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). December 2007 - March 2010 - First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Business. A. Turchinov was involved in the creation of the Institute of Economic Reforms LLC, the XXI Century Information Technologies CJSC, Farmakor LLC (engaged in the repair and maintenance of vehicles), ZET LLC, Europa-X LLC, Editorial Newspaper LLC Evening News, VV LLC, SVV LLC. Through relatives, A.Turchinov controls Janus Real Estate Agency LLC and Garant-Service LLC.
Income. 2006: A.Turchynov declared income in the amount of UAH 185,900. The income of family members amounted to UAH 17,443. According to the declaration, family members (at that time - the first vice-premier) had a total of 200 thousand hryvnias in bank accounts. The family owned a 100 sq m apartment (Kyiv) and a Nissan Patrol car. 2007: A. Turchynov declared UAH 761 thousand 67. income. The income of family members amounted to UAH 23.6 thousand (salary).
Scientific activity. In 1995, A. Turchinov defended his Ph.D. thesis in economics on the topic "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern conditions." In 1997 - a doctoral dissertation on the topic "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)". Author of a number of monographs and scientific articles. Owner of 12 copyright certificates. Professor. He argued that as soon as a normal leader comes to power in Ukraine, he will immediately quit politics for the sake of science.
The media wrote about the scientific inconsistency of the works of A. Turchinov, emphasizing that A. Turchinov's doctoral dissertation is a collection of compiled publications in the newspaper "VV", published by the BYuT with the money of the "parity fund".
Creation. Author of the thriller The Illusion of Fear (2004), the script for the film of the same name, and the fiction book The Last Supper. Neither the book nor the film were successful with the public and were almost unanimously ridiculed by critics.
Religious views. Baptized in 1999. According to A. Turchynov, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, and is also the leader of the Ukrainian branch of the Church of Christ: “I am least interested in the career of an official ... I preach in the church, and for me pastoral ministry would be more interesting than work as prime minister." At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor. To the question: “If you turned to the opposition with a sermon, what would you say?”, Turchinov answered this way: “... a person who believes in God is not afraid of death. Just as death is for us, believing Christians, it is the gateway to meeting our Creator. When there is faith, fear disappears. Go forward together and win” (“Facts”, February 2, 2004).
Family: wife Anna graduated from the Romano-Germanic faculty of Dnepropetrovsk University; teaches English language Drahomanov Pedagogical University (Kyiv). Son Cyril.
Scandals
A.Turchinov (as well as Yu.Tymoshenko) is accused of ties with ex-premier P.Lazarenko. Turchinov himself refutes these rumors: “The opposition has an indifferent attitude towards Pavel Ivanovich. His influence on the political situation ended with the 1998 elections. All. He cannot influence. These are the myths that were inflated by official propaganda, that he can influence something, he has secret ties with the opposition ... It was very difficult for us to part with him, it was a serious conflict that arose even before he left Ukraine . ...
We had political contradictions with him, there was a competitive situation in that party environment. We fought to lead the party, he did not want to give it up and expelled us. But we never shot him in the back. And we don’t have such deviations as beating a lying person” (“Ukrainskaya Pravda”, August 7, 2003).
2003 The GPU appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to give consent to bring to criminal responsibility the BYuT deputies A. Turchinov and Stepan Khmara. They were charged with three articles of the Criminal Code: "Seizure of state or public buildings", "Threat to law enforcement officers" and "Exceeding power or official authority with the use of weapons and insulting law enforcement officers."
It was about the penetration of people's deputies on June 20-21, 2003 into the territory of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where they “insulted and beat the staff” (the version of the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. The Parliament did not satisfy the request of the then Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun, without giving consent to the involvement of A. Turchynov and S. Khmara to criminal liability.
On September 13, 2003, the tax authorities detained Ruslan Lukenchuk, A. Turchynov's assistant, near the office of the Batkivshchyna party. He was charged with involvement in an illegal conversion center. Prosecutor General S. Piskun then stated that the detention of A. Turchinov's assistant was part of a planned process of measures to initiate a criminal case. It was, according to him, about hundreds of thousands of illegally converted dollars, which the person contributed to the office of the Batkivshchyna party. This incident has not received legal development.
The collapse of the Gongadze case. 2006 With the advent of A. Turchinov to the post of chairman of the SBU, the highly professional investigative group of the SBU, which had been investigating the case of G. Gongadze since 2002, was disorganized. This was announced on April 26, 2006 at a press conference by Roman Shubin, First Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the GPU.
According to R. Shubin, A. Turchinov also ordered not to report operational data on the case of G. Gonadze to the SBU investigation team. R. Shubin also said that the SBU investigation team headed by the SBU deputy chairman A. Kozhemyakin actually disrupted the special operation to extradite General Alexander Pukach, since the SBU investigation team did not have the authority to negotiate with the Israeli side on the extradition of A. Pukach.
According to R. Shubin, “...the SBU investigation team went to Israel without evidence and invitations from the Israeli side, as a result, this led to an uncontrolled expansion of the circle of people who have information regarding the evidence base in the case against General A. Pukach.”
Illegal wiretapping of journalist Alexander Korchinsky. This fact was made public at a press conference by Viktor Shokin, Deputy Prosecutor General. According to him, on June 25, 2005, the SBU opened an operational-search case, which included wiretapping of A. Korchinsky's phone. V. Shokin noted that the decision to establish an ORD is made personally by the head of the body, that is, the head of the SBU in 2005, A. Turchinov.
A.Korchinsky's phone was tapped until July 12, 2005, when the search warrant was closed. The interception was carried out under a court order, which was issued before December 25, 2005, and therefore such a short period of the ORD was unprecedented. The ORD was launched against unidentified persons of the Prosecutor General's Office, who allegedly informed A. Korchinsky about the whereabouts of the murderer of journalist G. Gongadze A. Pukach, and A. Korchinsky himself, who disseminated this information by publishing it in the Segodnya newspaper.
V. Shokin noted that at the same time, A. Korchinsky was charged with abuse of his official position by a law enforcement officer, while he is not one, and such an accusation was necessary in order to have the right to start an operational search. Thus, the OSA was initiated by falsifying documents. According to V. Shokin, after the closure of the ORD, his materials were destroyed. (Explanation: in June 2005, the Segodnya newspaper, citing an unnamed source, disseminated information that the wanted General Pukach had been found in Israel).
Destruction of the "case of Mogilevich". Since March 2006, A. Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin, Turchynov's former deputy in the SBU (also a member of the BYuT), were called by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine as witnesses in criminal cases on the fact of the destruction of the materials of the SBU operational-search file on the criminal activities of criminal authority S. Mogilevich and on the fact of illegal wiretapping of the correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky (read about the latter above - "A").
Recall: on September 8, 2005, the materials of the 20-volume operational-search file, which was conducted by the SBU for 12 years, about the activities of the international mafia S. Mogilevich, were destroyed. As an official investigation later established, the materials were destroyed in accordance with all the rules of office work.
In 2007, the Court of Appeal of the Kyiv Region closed the court proceedings in the case of the illegal destruction of the “Mogilevich case”. Moreover, the decision was made at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, which withdrew its appeal. At the same time, the Prosecutor General apologized for the actions of his deputy Viktor Shokin, who initiated the initiation of the case.
In the expert community, a version was expressed that the destruction of the archives of the SBU on S. Mogilevich was carried out by A. Turchinov and A. Kozhemyakin in the last days of their tenure in the SBU on the direct instructions of Yu. Tymoshenko. Which, in turn, was addressed with this request by the top leadership of Russia.
Fearing that the dossier on S. Mogilevich, the technical executor of many projects of the special services of the Russian Federation in Europe and the United States, could get to the special services of Western states. According to this version, the case itself was not destroyed, but handed over to the Russian special services. It is this circumstance that explains the closure of the criminal cases against A. Turchinov and A. Kozhemyakin, carried out with the assistance of the pro-Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko.
Himself said
About Me. "I'm one of those people who don't go to the doctor until they're taken to the hospital." (proUA, October 20, 2006).
“I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without serious political changes, and, believe me, the career of an official interests me least of all. Moreover, I am an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, I preach in the church, and for me pastoral ministry would be more interesting than working as a prime minister,” he says (Facts, February 2, 2004).
About the Ukrainian authorities: “I think that every citizen whom you ask: “What epithet are you ready to prepare for the government to characterize it?”, he will say: “Criminal”. (Radio Liberty, July 8, 2004).
About moods in the Ukrainian society. "I don't know soldiers who are ready to die for the money stolen by Kuchma and Yanukovych." ("Ukrainian Truth", November 30, 2004).
On personnel in law enforcement agencies. “I believe that it is necessary to appoint those people who have experienced firsthand how painful it is when a power machine steps over you.” ("Capital News", January 18, 2005).
About SBU. “I am not ready to give an unambiguous answer to what extent the SBU is able to ensure the reliable storage of state secrets today.” ("Zerkalo Nedeli", February 19, 2005).
The entire career of A. Turchinov as a politician is exclusively a battle for power. Which became an end in itself both for him and for his "host" - Yulia Tymoshenko.
The union of deeply vicious people, ready to betray their closest allies and fraternize with yesterday's enemies, cost Ukraine dearly. Perhaps even independence.
Egor Karnaukhov, "Argument"
Family
Parents separated early, and Alexander was raised by his mother Valentina Ivanovna, a physical education teacher at school.
Wife - Turchinova Anna Vladimirovna (born 1970) - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov.
Son - Kirill (born in 1994). In the summer of 2014, after receiving a master's degree, he wrote an application and went to serve in the National Guard.
Biography
Born March 31, 1964 in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukrainian SSR). In 1986 he graduated with honors from the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute. As a second-year student, he was rewarded as a commander of a construction team with a trip as part of the delegation of the Central Committee of the Komsomol to India and Ceylon.
After graduating from the institute in 1986-87, he worked as a roller operator, then as a foreman at the Kryvorizhstal Iron and Steel Works.
In 1987-1990, secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.
He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which advocated the renewal and decentralization of the party. In this regard, he was deprived of his membership card. Joined the Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine (PDVU).
1990-1991 - editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian branch of the information agency "IMA-press" APN, which he created with his partners, published books and newspapers.
1991 - founder and head of the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law.
In 1992 - head of the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
1993 - Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma on economic issues. Vice President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. After the resignation of Leonid Kuchma from the post of head of government, he took the position of General Director of the Institute for Economic Reforms, Head of the Shadow Economy Research Laboratory of the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Oleksandr Turchynov in 1995 defended his Ph.D. thesis "Methodological Support and Mechanism for Reforming and Optimizing Taxation in Modern Economic Conditions". In 1997 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)".
Is a parishioner Baptist Church Word of Life, in which he was baptized in 1999.
In 2004 he published a book - a thriller "The Illusion of Fear" and a script for the film of the same name.
In December 2012, he presented the book "The Coming", in which, from a Christian position and ecumenism, he categorically condemned attempts to resolve political crises through the use of military force.
Political activity
In 1994 he founded the All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada". Many people associate the name of this political organization with the Prime Minister during Kuchma's presidency - Pavel Lazarenko, although he came and headed it only in 1997. And shortly before that, in Gromada appeared Yulia Timoshenko- then - one of the leaders of the corporation "United Energy Systems of Ukraine", which supplied Russian natural gas. Since then, A. Turchinov and Lady Yu have been inseparable in politics. VO "Hromada" supported Leonid Kuchma in the presidential elections.
In 1998, he was elected a people's deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Gromada party; although he was soon expelled from his own organization due to an intra-party split. After Yulia Tymoshenko left for the government, he became the head of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee.
1999 - as a result of a conflict with Lazarenko, the All-Ukrainian Association is created "Fatherland"(VO "Fatherland"), which was headed by Yulia Tymoshenko, and Alexander Turchinov became her deputy.
In the summer of 2000, Tymoshenko started having problems with the president and his entourage, in January 2001 she was dismissed, and then sent to a pre-trial detention center. A. Turchinov and "Batkivshchyna" go into opposition (with the exception of 8 "post-Maidan" months).
First - a tough confrontation with the regime of L. Kuchma (both in parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities). It was a period of actions "Ukraine without Kuchma" and "Arise, Ukraine!", Then - the creation of the National Salvation Forum and the Orange Revolution, which ensured victory in the presidential race Viktor Yushchenko. A. Turchinov's contribution to the revolution, according to experts, was quite significant.
In 2002, he was re-elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine on the list of the BYuT bloc.
In 2004, during the presidential elections, he was one of the deputy heads of Viktor Yushchenko's election headquarters.
In early 2005, after Yushchenko's victory in the presidential election, he was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine. He was given the task of reforming the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation.
On July 27, 2005 Oleksandr Turchynov announced that he had circumstantial evidence that the company RosUkrEnergo- intermediary "Gazprom" in the transportation of Turkmen gas through the territory of Russia - indirectly controlled by the criminal businessman Semyon Mogilevich.
In September 2005, at the peak of the "intra-orange" conflict, V. Yushchenko dismissed the Tymoshenko government. The indignant head of the SBU himself submits a resignation letter, in which he notes that the decision of the head of state "threatens national security." So the fight against "Kuchmism" was followed by a confrontation with the team of V. Yushchenko, and at the same time with Party of Regions.
All this time A.Turchynov criticized both "our Ukrainians" and "regionals". He accused the former of betraying the ideals of the Maidan, the latter of trying to restore the regime that had been overthrown at the end of 2004.
The permanent political crisis in June 2007 resulted in the early termination of the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation. A. Turchinov, like most members of the BYuT factions and "Our Ukraine"(by this time the political forces had entered into another alliance), wrote a statement about the resignation of the deputy mandate.
On May 23, 2007, in the midst of a confrontation with the ruling coalition, V. Yushchenko appointed Turchynov as First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
In 2008, he participated in the election of the mayor of Kyiv and took second place.
In 2010, as a result of regular elections, the President became Victor Yanukovich, the government of Y. Tymoshenko was dismissed, A. Turchinov left his post.
During the political crisis in Ukraine in 2013-2014, after the resignation Vladimir Rybak On February 22, 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 288 deputies voted for his appointment.
On February 22, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution "On the self-removal of the President of Ukraine from the exercise of constitutional powers and the appointment of early elections of the President of Ukraine."
On February 23, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov signed a resolution on assuming the duties of the President of Ukraine, referring to Article 112 of the Constitution of Ukraine (as amended on December 8, 2004). However, according to this article, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada can become and. O. President only in the event of early termination of the powers of the President (the powers of the current President Viktor Yanukovych were not terminated early, as required by Articles 108-111 of the Constitution of Ukraine).
On February 26, 2014, Turchynov assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As acting President of Ukraine and on April 14, 2014 signed a decree on the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to conduct a large-scale anti-terrorist operation against separatists encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
While Turchynov was acting president, on March 11, 2014, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Sevastopol City Council adopted a declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, and on March 18, 2014 signed an agreement on the entry of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol part Russian Federation on the rights of subjects of the Russian Federation.
In May 2014, information appeared in the media that a conflict had arisen between Alexander Turchinov and Yulia Tymoshenko. According to sources, Tymoshenko demanded that Turchynov give the command to forcefully suppress the militia in the South-East of Ukraine.
In August 2014, together with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Arsen Avakov and a number of others left the political council of the Batkivshchyna party due to disagreements. After that, a party was organized "People's Front".
On October 26, 2014, in the next elections to the Verkhovna Rada, the Popular Front party took second place and received 82 mandates. Oleksandr Turchinov again became a deputy.
Prime Minister Yatsenyuk spoke in favor of Turchynov becoming chairman of the Verkhovna Rada again.
Income
According to the official declaration, Oleksandr Turchynov's total income in 2011 amounted to 1 million 79 thousand hryvnias, of which 935 thousand hryvnias were received in the form of dividends and interest. The family owns two apartments with an area of 91.7 and 381.8 square meters. Turchinov himself officially does not have his own real estate and even a car. And this despite the fact that Alexander Valentinovich has 11 million 232 thousand hryvnias in bank accounts, and 530 thousand hryvnias with family members.
The size of the contributions of members of the Turchynov family to the statutory capital of enterprises amounted to 3 million 200 thousand hryvnias.
According to the State Register of Legal Entities, Turchynov is not listed as a participant in the capital of any companies. However, his mother-in-law Tamara Beliba, mother Valentina and wife Anna are engaged in business.
Scandals, criminal cases
On July 27, 2005, Oleksandr Turchinov announced that he had circumstantial evidence that the RosUkrEnergo company, Gazprom's intermediary in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia, was indirectly controlled by Semyon Mogilevich, an economist from Kiev, who has been associated with Russian organized crime groups since the early 1970s. , who emigrated to Israel in 1990 and then moved to Hungary and has citizenship of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hungary.
Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI for alleged involvement in stock fraud, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transport of weapons and drugs. Gazprom and Raiffeisen Investment claimed that Mogilevich had nothing to do with RUE. After that, a conflict arose with President Yushchenko, and Turchynov resigned.
In 2006, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, the head of the BYuT campaign headquarters, Turchynov, was accused of "wiretapping" when he was chairman of the SBU. The Prosecutor General's Office even opened a criminal case on the fact of wiretapping of senior officials.
In April 2012, the General Prosecutor's Office announced that it was checking information about the illegal allocation of apartments to journalists by Oleksandr Turchynov when he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. "Fatherland" called the accusations of the Prosecutor General's Office political persecution.
On December 20, 2013, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that a criminal case had been opened against Turchynov "for calling for a coup d'état."
On April 1, 2014, the criminal proceedings against A. Turchynov, O. Tyagnibok, N. Katerynchuk, O. Lyashko and Y. Lutsenko for calls aimed at seizing state power were closed.
Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich- Ukrainian political and statesman. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from December 16, 2014 to May 19, 2019. Acting President of Ukraine from February 23 to June 7, 2014. Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from February 23 to June 7, 2014. Head of the Popular Front faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from November 27 to December 16, 2014. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (from February 22 to November 27, 2014). He was a longtime friend and “right hand” of Yulia Tymoshenko. After her arrest in 2011, he took over the leadership of the BYuT. On August 27, 2014, he left the Batkivshchyna and moved to the People's Front. Member of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2007 and from 2012 to 2014. From February to September 2005, he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. From May to November 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. From December 2007 to March 2010 he was the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Biography
Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich, 03/31/1964, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR.
Relatives. Wife - Anna Vladimirovna Turchinova (dev. Beliba; born April 1, 1970) - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov.
Son - Kirill Aleksandrovich Turchinov (August 28, 1992), - activist of the NGO "People's Front of Youth", (2014-2016) - served in the National Guard of Ukraine, graduate student of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, graduated from the law faculty of KNEU named after. Hetman, in 2013 he transferred to the magistracy of the Kiev Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism, in 2014 he became a graduate student of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada, in 2018 he defended his dissertation on the topic “Constitutional and legal regulation of the activities of political parties in the electoral process” and became a candidate of legal Sciences, wrote a fantasy novel about the superpowers of a person "Electi" under the pseudonym Alex Kirillov.
Awards. Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (May 2, 2018). Award weapons - Alfa 3541 revolver caliber .357 Magnum (April 30, 2014), Fort-226 submachine gun (March 30, 2015), Mauser C96 pistol with 105 rounds (handed over by Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak on February 22, 2016 ), self-loading pistol PSM-05 (October 31, 2014).
State. According to the data of the electronic declaration, in 2016 Oleksandr Turchynov earned UAH 512,807 in salary, he received UAH 1.7 million in interest from bank deposits, another UAH 22.8 thousand were income from alienation valuable papers and corporate rights. Turchynov had 49.8 thousand hryvnias, 810.4 thousand dollars and about 10 thousand euros in bank accounts. In cash, Turchynov declared 735,000 dollars, 55,000 euros and 320,000 hryvnias. The declaration also included a collection of old Bibles, 12 paintings, and copyrights for books and films. The wife declared 447.5 thousand hryvnias of income for 2016.
Education
Graduated with honors from the Technological Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (1986).
Labor activity
- After graduation, he worked in the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU, was the secretary of the district committee and head of the propaganda department. He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, in connection with which he was expelled from the party.
- From 1990 to 1991, he headed the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency.
- From 1993 to 1994 he was an adviser to the President of Ukraine on economic issues.
- In 1998 he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Gromada electoral association. He was a member of the Batkivshchyna faction, was its deputy chairman.
- In 2005 Turchinov A.V. headed the SBU for some time.
- In 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
- From 2007 to 2010, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister.
- On February 22, 2014, as a result of a coup d'etat, he was elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, and the next day he became acting president of Ukraine. In June of the same year, he transferred the powers of the head of state to P. A. Poroshenko.
- Since December 2014, he has been the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
Relations/Partners
Tymoshenko Yulia Vladimirovna- People's Deputy of Ukraine. A. Turchynov is the main ally of Y. Tymoshenko, as well as the first deputy head of the Batkivshchyna party and the head of the Central Headquarters of the BYuT.
Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich- politician and statesman. In June 2012, A. Hrytsenko's party "Civic Position" became part of the united opposition "Batkivshchyna", the head of the election headquarters of which is A. Turchynov.
Avakov Arsen Borisovich- Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Oleksandr Turchynov is sure that Avakov won the elections in Kharkiv.
Tyagnibok Oleg Yaroslavovich - political figure. Opposition representatives A. Yatsenyuk, O. Tyahnybok and A. Turchynov united before the 2012 parliamentary elections.
Boyko Yury Anatolievich- politics, energy. The head of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, Yuriy Boyko, got confused in his testimony. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the Batkivshchyna party Oleksandr Turchynov.
Royal Natalia Yurievna- People's Deputy of Ukraine. A. Turchinov called N. Korolevskaya "an unsuccessful project of opponents."
To information
The "godfather" of Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov as a politician is the former prime minister Pavel Lazarenko. True, for unknown reasons, Turchinov himself denies this, as his longtime colleague denies the obvious. Yulia Timoshenko. But if there is still logic in denial on the part of Yulia Vladimirovna (perhaps she fears that this format of relations, given the whole range of their ties with Lazarenko, will definitely look like incest), then denial on the part of Alexander Valentinovich has no logic at all. It is unlikely that the format of their relationship with Lazarenko was as complex as in the case of Lazarenko and Tymoshenko, although, as they say, anything can happen.
In 2003, Turchynov first gained all-Ukrainian fame when the Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a request to agree to bring him to criminal responsibility along with another deputy from the BYuT Stepan Khmara. They were charged with committing crimes under three articles of the Criminal Code at once: “Seizure of state or public buildings”, “Threat to law enforcement officers” and “Exceeding power or official authority with the use of weapons and insulting law enforcement officers”, since they entered the territory of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where staff were insulted and beaten. Alexander Valentinovich indignantly rejected all accusations, calling the prosecutor's presentation a provocation. Parliament also denied the request of the then Attorney General Svyatoslav Piskun, without giving consent to bringing Turchinov and Khmara to criminal responsibility.
In the same 2003, the tax authorities detained one of Alexander Valentinovich's assistants near the office of the Batkivshchyna party. Ruslan Lukenchuk, who was charged with involvement in an illegal conversion center. At the same time, Prosecutor General Piskun stated that the detention of Turchynov's assistant was part of a planned process of measures to initiate a criminal case. It was, according to him, about hundreds of thousands of illegally converted dollars, which came to the office of the Batkivshchyna party. But the investigation dragged on, and after coming to the highest government post Viktor Yushchenko and completely disappeared. Indeed, under him, Alexander Valentinovich himself became a "punishing sword", heading a very serious institution, known by the abbreviation SBU.
With the advent of Turchynov to this post, the highly professional investigative group of the SBU, which was investigating the murder of a journalist, was disorganized. George Gongadze since 2002. Alexander Valentinovich also gave a strict instruction not to report operational data on the Gongadze case to the SBU investigation team. The very same investigation team, headed by the deputy chairman of the SBU Andrey Kozhemyakin actually thwarted a special operation to extradite a general from Israel Alexander Pukach.
In 2005, the SBU opened an operational-search case (ORD), which included tapping the journalist's phone Alexander Korchinsky. At the same time, the decision to open an operational-search activity was made personally by Turchinov, and the case itself was opened with blatant violations of all the rules, including the forgery of documents. In general, Alexander Valentinovich was distinguished as chairman of the SBU by extreme unscrupulousness and uncleanliness. It got to the point that he bugged the country's top leadership and seized documents with subsequent destruction, which spoke of Yulia Tymoshenko's connections with a criminal businessman Semyon Mogilevich. Therefore, it can be considered a miracle that Turchinov got away with all this.
Alexander Valentinovich considers himself a Baptist. In fact, the Faith Movement, to which he belongs, was founded by a notorious Nigerian Sundayem Adelaja and it has nothing to do with Protestantism, to which Baptism belongs. The Faith Movement has a special teaching, which, according to authoritative experts, cannot be called Christian. In fact, it represents the occult, which is only covered by Christianity.
Turchinov's penchant for the occult is also confirmed by the fact that he loves the number seven. He published his book "The Coming" with a circulation of 7,770 copies, and his car AudiQ7 (such a car in the minimum configuration costs at least 80 thousand dollars) has the number AA 7777 TO (Turchinov Oleksandr).
Former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council
Education
Born in Dnepropetrovsk on March 31, 1964. In 1986 he graduated with honors from the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.
In 1995 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern economic conditions", and in 1997 - his doctoral dissertation "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)".
Family
Married to Anna Turchinova (born 1970), head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Mikhail Dragomanov National Pedagogical University.
Son Cyril (born 1992) - activist of the NGO "People's Front of Youth", 2014-2016 - a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine, a graduate student of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, graduated from the Kiev National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman.
Career
After graduating from the institute, he worked for a short time as a roller and foreman at the Kryvorizhstal metallurgical plant.
In 1987, he switched to party work - he became the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, then the head of the agitation and propaganda department of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol. However, after that he acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which demanded the decentralization of the Communist Party. For this, Turchynov was deprived of his party card.
In 1990-1991 worked as the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian branch of the news agency Una-press APN.
In 1991, he headed the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, which he himself created. The following year, he headed the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
Since 1993, he was an adviser to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma on economic issues, vice-president of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Turchinov met the future president at the time when he was in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk giant plant Yuzhmash.
When Kuchma resigned in the fall of the same year, he took over as director general of the Institute for Economic Reforms, head of the shadow economy research laboratory at the Russian Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Political career and rapprochement with Tymoshenko
In 1994, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada", which supported Kuchma in the presidential elections. However, the association was not too active, while Turchinov combined its chairmanship with scientific work.
By 1997, he met and became close with - since that time he has been in her team. It was even rumored that Turchynov agreed to cede the post of chairman of Hromada to Lady Yu, but soon after that, the organization was headed by Pavlo Lazarenko, who retired from the post of prime minister.
In 1998, Turchynov entered the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Gromada party, but due to a conflict with Lazarenko, he left the leadership of the party in March 1999, and in May, the faction itself.
Together with Tymoshenko, in July of the same year, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" party, the leader of which was Tymoshenko herself, and her deputy, respectively, Turchynov.
After Tymoshenko left for the post of Deputy Prime Minister, he headed the Batkivshchyna faction and the budget committee. In this post, he initiated a number of changes, in particular, a radical budget reform, healthcare systems, educational and coal mining industries, and wrote a program for deshadowing the national economy.
After Batkivshchyna went into opposition in the summer of 2000, he became one of the founders of the National Salvation Forum.
Following the results of the 2002 parliamentary elections, he became a people's deputy on the list of the BYuT bloc.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was deputy head of Viktor Yushchenko's campaign headquarters and one of the main leaders of the Maidan - he coordinated civil protests. After Yushchenko's victory in the elections in early 2005, Turchynov received the chair of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. In this position, he initiated an investigation into the activities of the gas mafia in Ukraine. However, already in September 2005, after Tymoshenko's resignation from the post of prime minister, Turchynov left his post, writing a letter of resignation.
In view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, he heads the election headquarters of the BYuT bloc, in 2006 he passes to the Verkhovna Rada and becomes deputy head of the BYuT faction.
In the same year, together with the former deputy SBU, he was involved as a witness by the Prosecutor General's Office in the case of the destruction of materials about the activities of businessman Semyon Mogilevich and the wiretapping of the correspondent of the Segodnya newspaper Alexander Korchinsky.
In May 2007, President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Turchynov First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
In the elections in September 2007, he again entered the Rada from the BYuT faction, and in December he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
In 2008, he participated in the election of the mayor of Kyiv - he took second place.
In March 2010, he acted as prime minister for a week (March 3-11), after Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential election, he lost his post in the Cabinet, as he was dismissed.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he entered the Rada under the fourth number on the electoral list of the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna", is a member of the Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies, First Deputy Chairman of the Batkivshchyna Party, Chairman of the Central Headquarters of the All-Ukrainian Party "Batkivshchyna".
February 22, 2014 year elected to job title Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ukraine. From 23 February, after the escape of Viktor Yanukovych, he was appointed acting President Ukraine, until the election of the head of state in the early elections on May 25, 2014. From February 25 Turchinov authorized to sign laws Ukraine before the election of a new President. From 26 February - Supreme commander in chief Armed Forces Ukraine.
In September 2014 at the congress.
In 2014, in the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, he ran on the lists under No. 3. Since October, people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation.
On May 17, 2019, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov resigned due to the termination of the powers of President Petro Poroshenko.
On May 19, President Petro Poroshenko dismissed Turchynov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Creation
Alexander Turchinov is the author of a number of fiction books, the most famous of them are The Illusion of Fear, Testimony, The Last Supper, The Advent. Based on the thriller Illusion of Fear, a film of the same name was shot in 2008, which was even nominated from Ukraine for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film nomination.Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov — Ukrainian statesman, Acting President of Ukraine (February 23 to June 7, 2014), Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (February 26 to June 7, 2014). Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (since December 16, 2014).
Head of the Popular Front faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since November 27, 2014). Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (from February 22 to November 27, 2014), was a longtime friend and "right hand" of Yulia Tymoshenko. After her arrest in 2011, he took over the leadership of the BYuT. On August 27, 2014, he left the Batkivshchyna and moved to the People's Front.
Member of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2007 and since 2012. From February to September 2005, he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. From May to November 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. From December 2007 to March 2010 he was the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Family of Alexander Turchinov
The parents of Alexander Turchinov separated early and Alexander was raised by his mother.
Father - Valentin Ivanovich Turchinov. He worked all his life in the sports club "Lokomotiv", was the master of sports of the Soviet Union in volleyball.
Mother - Valentina Turchinova. According to some reports, part of the business of Alexander Turchinov is recorded on it.
Education of Alexander Turchinov
In 1986 he graduated with honors from the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute. Received a specialty in the processing of metals under pressure. Doctor of Economics, Professor. Author of a number of monographs and scientific articles. Has a dozen copyright certificates. Once he said that as soon as a normal leader comes to power in Ukraine, he would immediately leave politics for the sake of science. In the meantime, he remains one of the most quoted Ukrainian politicians.
Career of Alexander Turchinov
After graduation, he worked for a short time as a roller and foreman at the Kryvorizhstal Iron and Steel Works. As he himself recalled: “After the institute, they predicted a scientific perspective for me. And none of the teachers expected that I would voluntarily go to work at Kryvorizhstal. Roller. Any young specialist was first taken to a working position ... "
1987-1990 - Secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.
According to media reports, in 1989 A. Turichnov supported the start-up entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko in the creation of the youth center "Terminal" under the auspices of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU, in which she took the position of commercial director.
He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which advocated the renewal, decentralization of the Communist Party, for which he lost his party card and plunged into business.
- In 1990, with partners, he created and headed the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency, which published books and newspapers.
- In 1991, he headed the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, which he himself created.
- 1992-1993 - Chairman of the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
- 1993 - Adviser on macroeconomic issues to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, whom he met at the time when he was in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk giant plant Yuzhmash. Vice President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP).
- After the resignation of Leonid Kuchma from the post of head of government (September 1993), he took the position of General Director of the Institute of Economic Reforms, Head of the Shadow Economy Research Laboratory of the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
- In 1994, Turchynov created the All-Ukrainian Association Hromada. The name of this political force, for many, is primarily associated with the odious prime minister of the times of Kuchma-President Pavel Lazarenko, although he joined it and headed it only in 1997. And shortly before that, Yulia Tymoshenko appeared in Hromada - then one of the leaders of the corporation Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine, which supplied Russian natural gas. VO "Hromada" supported Leonid Kuchma in the presidential elections. Since then, Turchinov and "Lady Yu" have been inseparable in politics.
- In 1998, he first became a people's deputy (later he received a mandate four more times: in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2012). He entered the parliament on the Gromada list, although he was soon expelled from his own offspring due to an intra-party split. In the Verkhovna Rada, he headed the budget committee. At the same time, he initiated a radical budget reform, the redistribution of public funds in favor of local government, the healthcare system, the educational and coal mining industries. Wrote a program de-shadowing the national economy.
The new political project of Turchynov and Tymoshenko was the All-Ukrainian Association of Batkivshchyna (established in July 1999). Soon Tymoshenko became Deputy Prime Minister for the fuel and energy complex in the government Viktor Yushchenko, and"Batkivshchyna" was actually headed by A. Turchinov.
In January 2001, Tymoshenko was dismissed and then arrested. A tough confrontation with L. Kuchma begins (both in parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities: the actions “Ukraine without Kuchma” and “Arise, Ukraine!”, the creation of the National Salvation Forum - up to the “orange revolution” 2004-2005).
2005 - Turchynov headed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He made an attempt to reform the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation.
September 2005 - submitted a resignation letter in protest against the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko's comrade-in-arms from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
May - October 2007 - First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
In December 2007 appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
In 2008, after the Verkhovna Rada made a decision on the re-election of the mayor of the capital and deputies of the Kyiv City Council, they started talking about Turchynov as a possible candidate for the post of the capital's mayor from BYuT. At the same time, the potential candidate himself said that he did not want to be the mayor of Kyiv, but if the party says “We must!”, then he will run. The party still said "We must!". As a result, he took second place, leaving Leonid Chernovetsky ahead.
After Viktor Yanukovych became president in 2010 as a result of regular elections, and the Tymoshenko government was dismissed, Turchynov lost his post as first deputy prime minister of Ukraine.
Since December 2012 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation from the Batkivshchyna party (No. 4 on the list). Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies. First Deputy Head of the Batkivshchyna Party. Since July 2013, he headed the central headquarters of the Batkivshchyna VO.
After the resignation of V. Rybak from the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada on February 22, 2014, Turchynov was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
It is worth noting that in the entire history of Ukraine's independence, the new speaker Oleksandr Turchynov was elected by the maximum number of votes - his candidacy was supported by 288 people's deputies.
After the appointment of Turchinov to the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament assigned him functions of the President of Ukraine. 282 people's deputies voted for the corresponding resolution No. 4204.
As acting President, in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, Turchynov assumed the duties of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Personal life
Wife - Turchinova Anna Vladimirovna (born 1970) - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov. Owns part of the business of Alexander Turchinov, is engaged in figure skating.
Student Anna met her future husband at Dnepropetrovsk University while Alexander was working in the regional committee of the Komsomol. “He took me first of all because, unlike many gentlemen and admirers who tried to court me, he was the only one whom I could not push around. I quickly realized that I was dealing with a smart man who was stronger than me. So, we must capitulate, ”recalls Anna (“Zerkalo Nedeli”, March 5, 2005).
Son Cyril (born 1994), entered the law faculty of the Kyiv National Economic University. Vadim Hetman, and in the fourth year he transferred to the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism. In the summer of 2014, after receiving a master's degree, he wrote an application and went to serve in the National Guard.
Creativity, hobbies of Alexander Turchinov
In 2004, Alexander Turchinov made his debut as a novelist, publishing the psychological thriller Illusion of Fear, and then the script for the film of the same name. The book tells the story of a businessman who is forced to defend his business in the difficult conditions of the gangster 90s). “The desire to get rid of “unnecessary, paralyzing, unjustified fear,” as Alexander Valentinovich himself said, was the main reason that made him sit down to write a book. Then he wrote the documentary and biographical story "The Testimony" and the mystical thriller "The Last Supper".
In December 2012, Alexander Turchinov presented another book - "The Advent". As A. Turchinov said, this book is not a prophecy, although some real events in Ukrainian politics. “This is an attempt to build a model of our society with you and see how this model works in the short term,” he explained.
Alexander Turchinov claims that the best vacation for him is a change of occupation. “A short rest is like a shot from a pistol – and there is no fatigue,” he says. However, he considers the main rest for himself not for the body, but for the soul. This gives me only the church, which I go to most often, - says Alexander Valentinovich.
Religious views of Alexander Turchinov
Baptized in 1999. According to A. Turchynov, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, and is also the leader of the Ukrainian branch of the Church of Christ: “I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without major political changes, and, the least interested in the career of an official ... I preach in the church, and for me the pastoral ministry would be more interesting than working as a prime minister. At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor. To the question: “If you turned to the opposition with a sermon, what would you say?” Turchinov answered this way: “... a person who believes in God is not afraid of death. Just as death is for us, believing Christians, it is the gateway to meeting our Creator. When there is faith, fear disappears. Go forward together and win” (“Facts”, February 2, 2004).
Video
Sources
- https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turchinov,_Alexander_Valentinovich